15-letter words containing w
- city of glasgow — a council area in W central Scotland. Pop: 593 000 (2010 est). Area: 175 sq km (68 sq miles)
- clamp down (on) — to become more strict (with)
- climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- cloak-and-sword — (of a drama or work of fiction) dealing with characters who wear cloaks and swords; concerned with the customs and romance of the nobility in bygone times.
- coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
- coffee whitener — a milk substitute to put in coffee
- cold-water flat — (formerly) an apartment provided with only cold running water, often in a building with no central heating.
- coldwater-river — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- collected works — the works of a particular writer brought together into one volume or a set of volumes
- coming bet ween — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- common-law wife — a woman considered to be a man's wife after the couple have cohabited for several years
- commutative law — a law asserting that the order in which certain logical operations are performed is indifferent.
- compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
- conestoga wagon — a large heavy horse-drawn covered wagon used in the 19th century
- confederate war — the American Civil War.
- conjoined twins — twin babies born joined together at some point, such as at the hips. Some have lived for many years without being surgically separated
- continuous wave — an electromagnetic wave, esp. a radio wave, with a constant amplitude and frequency
- contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
- contraflow lane — a traffic lane whose normal direction is reversed temporarily
- cooktown orchid — a purple Australian orchid, Dendrobium bigibbum, found in Queensland, of which it is the floral emblem
- corkscrew curls — locks of hair curled to hang in a spiral shape
- corkscrew grass — a variety of spear grass, Austrostipa scabra, native to Australia, having very fine foliage, an erect seed head, and awns that twist up the seed head: family Poaceae
- cornflower blue — a deep vivid blue, like that of the typical blooms of a cornflower
- coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
- costume jewelry — Costume jewelry is jewelry made from cheap materials.
- cotton bollworm — corn earworm.
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- country dweller — a person who lives in the country
- country western — country music
- cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
- crack down (on) — to become strict or stricter (with)
- craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
- crashworthiness — the ability of a vehicle structure to withstand a crash
- crawler tractor — a tractor with a continuous roller belt over cogged wheels on each side, for moving over rough or muddy ground
- crawling horror — (jargon) Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
- crescent wrench — a wrench with a head shaped like a crescent, having one movable jaw, adjusted by a screw to fit various sizes of nuts, bolts, etc.
- criminal lawyer — a lawyer who deals with criminal rather than civil cases
- crisis software — A small UK company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes range of computers.
- cross-ownership — ownership of two or more similar or related businesses, as communications media, especially in the same locality: to forbid cross-ownership of newspapers and TV or radio stations in the same city.
- crown of thorns — a climbing spurge, Euphorbia milii splendens, of Madagascar, having stems covered with spines.
- crown-of-jewels — an annual herb, Lopezia coronata, of Mexico, having lilac-colored flowers with a red base.
- crown-of-thorns — a starfish, Acanthaster planci, that has a spiny test and feeds on living coral in coral reefs
- curie-weiss law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to the difference between its temperature and its Curie point
- d. c. power lab — The former site of SAIL. This name was very funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent - the lab was named after a Donald C. Power. Compare Marginal Hacks.
- daffodil yellow — a bright yellow colour
- daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
- daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
- de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
- delaware jargon — a jargon based on Unami Delaware, now extinct but formerly used as a lingua franca in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
- demolition work — the work of knocking down buildings